The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-11
PRESS OPINION.

Boston Trru3d The independents
are not party. They are product of
the times.
Washington Critic Qnd): The South
is unfortunate in her Confederate me-
mortal orators.
Minneapolis Tribune: The recent Con-
federate reunions show that it is not
necessary to bore very deep for natural
gas in the South.
Philadelphia Press: Anarchy in its in
fancy can be suppressed by the ballot.
In its larger growth it may defy the bay
onet. 1t is better to prevent than to
punish it.
st. Louis Post Dispatch: 1t ought to oc-
cur to American anarchists that If the
Constitution is worth appealing to in an
emergency, it is worth preserving all the
time.
Indianapolis Journal: Why was Davis
invited to Macon, and why did he go
there? Simply to furnish an opportuni-
ty for glorifying him and the lost cause.
And it was done with vengeance.
New York Herald: A proper measure
will be bill establishing government
telegraph line. to be worked by the Post
Office Department., to have a telegraph
station at every postoffice, and to charge
a uniform rate Cor the whole country.
New York World: What Chicago did
for the fearless Judge and the faithful
District Attorney who tried the muder-
Gus anarchists, New York should do for
the public prosecutor and his able assis-
tant who directed and conducted the
Doodle trials.
Mobile Register (Dem.): The time for
two parties in the South has not come
yet.
Denver Republican,: Only the duty a
man owes to his God is higher than that
he owes to his wife.
Wilmington Messenger (Dem.): Mary
land and Virginia are the first Demo
cratic defenses. If they are penetrated
then the interior is in danger.
Minneapolis Tribune: "Jacksonian
Democracy is not what it is cracked up
to be" thought Mr.. Cleveland when he
read Minister Jackson's fool speech.
New York Sun: However, the chan,
ces of the young men are no doubt bet.
ter than those of the old ones as aspir.
ants to political distinction, and in some
other respects also.
Kansas City JoUrnai: While Mr.
Gould, doubtless, is not the man to run
the telegraph business to the satisfaction
of the public, it is nevertheless open tc
lquestion whether government tele
graph can be run as cheaply and satisfac
torily as a telegraph owned and opera
ted by private individuals.
Detroit Journal: There is one strong
argument in favor of holding the politi
cal convention in Chicago. That city
is convenient to Michigan.
Detroit Tribune: "What is the bloody
shirt ?" The bloody shirt, my son, ac
cording to Democratic authority, II
what Northern people say about what
Southern people say and do. 1t is moi
what Southern people say and do.
Montreal Gazette: Those that arc
ready to justify as well as those that are
; ready to commit such crimes, as the an
archists, will be taught that in a demo
cratically governed land, no more thar
under despotism, is the law that pro
vides for the safety of all to be set at de
: fiance.
New York World: The hanging o
these men will be browning triumph
lin the infiexible administration of just
ice in the courts of this country, anG
will be standing moral to those mel
whose vicious doctrines are aimed a
the peace and prosperity guaranteed b,
! our institutions.
The Misses Drexel, daughters of thu
late j. A. Drexel, have returned Il
J Philadelphia from visit to various
! Roman Catholic missions among the In
! dams. They were much interested il
i the work of the missionaries, and CAV
100000 for its furtherance.